[South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister: AI Development Cannot Slow Down, Will Make Every Effort to Advance AI Technology] According to Deep Tide TechFlow, on September 16, South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister Kyunghoon Bae stated on Wednesday that South Korea must continue advancing artificial intelligence without hesitation or delay. Amid increasingly intense global debates about the pace of AI development, he set a clear and unequivocal tone. Kyunghoon Bae said: 'From South Korea's perspective, I believe one thing is clear: we cannot slow down AI development now. There is a fundamental difference between countries that are already ahead choosing to slow down and a country that is still catching up while trying to create new markets. I will also soon share with the public our plans for the next phase of an independent AI foundational model, which we have been carefully considering. We will not let South Korea's AI clock turn backward. We will move forward faster, but also more safely.'